Toys “R” Us evolved from Children’s Supermart in the Washington, DC area, as a baby-furniture retailer in the late 1940s. He began receiving requests to carry toys for babies, and then older children, and the toy sales ended up dwarfing the furniture sales. The first Toys “R” Us store, dedicated exclusively to toys, opened in Rockville, Maryland in 1957.

While the US stores are no longer in existence, Toys “R” Us does still operate in Canada and was sold to Fairfax Financial in April.

Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 170 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.74 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.8256).
An average of 8.5841 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.2619).

An early cutoff took place 32.653% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

Everyone from the Nov. 6 taping has been eager to see this episode, to see how our “returning champion” had done. (We were told it had been a runaway, and she wasn’t on the transport with the rest of us because she’s a local… the combined effect of her showing up, in a furry coat to boot, was intimidating!)

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